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How I get better information with google alerts

How I get better information with google alerts

Would you like to know what is said about you instantly?

Imagine having a free monitoring service that let’s you know what’s being said about you, your business, a product, a specific topic, news, jobs available, when they content appears on web pages, blog post, news articles, etc.

This Free service is Google Alerts

You can choose to be notified via email, throught a web feeed or on your.

Here’s how Google Alerts works.

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts and type what your name, your business name or any specific topic in the Search query box.

Google Alerts

Then decide if you want to search Everything, News, Blogs, Videos, Discussions, or Books.

Google_Alerts Step 2

Next select how often you want to receive the notifications.
You can pick Once a day, As it happens, or Once per week.

Google_Alerts Step 3

You are almost done, the next step is to select if you want only the best results or All the results. Typically I select, Only the best results.

Google_Alerts Step 4

Last, is to pick if you want your notifications to be sent to your email or to a feed. Easy!

When I help new clients I setup daily alerts for:

  • Their business
  • Their name
  • Their competition

Get what matters to you

The point of getting alerts is to know when things happen, and to have the information when you need it.

You can setup Google alerts within a specific website.
For example, if I want to know everything that is said about my home town “Cabo Rojo” in a specific news paper.
The search query will be.

Cabo Rojo site:elnuevodia.com

If I want to be notified about every article wight he title “Cabo Rojo” in it, the search will be.

allintitle:Cabo Rojo

* You can do the same with jobs openings.

If you want to learn more advance techniques, go here https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861

Please share in the comments area how you are using Google Alerts.

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Comments

  1. Shannon Byrne

    May 27, 2014 at 7:44 am

    Hey Angel – great post, really like how you’re leveraging Google Alerts. You may also be interested in checking out mention.com, a medial monitoring app often described as “Google Alerts on steroids.”

    With mention, you can monitor keywords across the web including social and review, react to, and share mentions directly from the web or mobile app. Happy to answer any questions or help you get set up with your free trial if you’d like to give it a try!

  2. Angel Anderson

    May 31, 2014 at 1:11 am

    Shannon,
    Google Alerts saves me a lot of time while keeping me inform.
    I will definitely check out mention.com

  3. Angel Anderson

    July 21, 2014 at 10:38 pm

    Shannon, I’m receiving updates using mention.com pretty cool. Thank you

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